The ISIS says they are marching on Baghdad next. Should we go back to Iraq?

We should return IF the Iraqi government asks for assistance. Should the US return then the kid gloves should be removed and the Iraqi government WILL provide the compensation for our services!

We should have never deposed Saddam Hussein the first time. Doing so created a power vaccum in the region that opened the door for these nut cases. Having deposed him, we should have kept a sizable force there to prevent the rise of these militant inslamic terrorists. Pulling out and expecting the Iraqis to fight is like waiting up to see Santa Claus. Now we may have no choice but to put boots on the ground, but like previously, we need to wage total war, not rules of engagement, and wipe these bastards off the face of the earth for good.

Hmmmmm, this is such a double edged sword. I feel our pulling out, opened the door to these bums. In short, we pulled out too early. I do feel, eventually we will deal with this bunch of fucktards, whether it be in the middle east or on our own ground. I agree we are not the worlds Police Force, but, what's the best way to handle a Bully? Beat the crap out of a Bully once, humiliate them, and they will leave you alone. If and when we do deal with this bunch, the gloves need to come off, no more niceness, no more respect, we need clear objectives, the politicians stay out of all of it, as does the media. Mainstream media couldn't make an accurate reporting of someone wiping their ass, much less a battle in a far off land. The mission definition is to annihilate ISIS, make them lose all taste for battle. The U.N. needs to stay out of making any definition of what we do, we swore to defend the interests of the United States, and the Constitution, nothing in my oath said anything about the Defending or taking orders from the United Nations. The UN is ineffective, and has been for a long time. The people of the world don't like how we handle things because we are brutal, but yet, we're the first ones the world looks to when it comes to defending them. An example of this was Bosnia. The European Union, was supposed to handle that issue, after 4 years of discussions, four countries sent in soldiers. The soldiers did nothing, in fact the Danish military had surrendered to the enemy at one refugee camp, and allowed the slaughter of many civilians who came to them for refuge, Srebrenica massacre. We eventually got involved. And the same will happen again, unless we clearly define, to the world, what out intent is, and what we will do, then stay the course. Handle this fighting in the same spirit as we did in WW2, grab them by the nose, and kick them in the ass. If they cross a border into another country, we give chase, do not let them hide the way the NVA used Cambodia and Laos.

Secure our national interests and let them [Iraqis] sort out their civil war. Its time for Iraqis to stand up for their own security.

What a lost. A country that cannot defend itself will fall. Get every American out now.

Self determination. We installed a failed government, let them sort themselves out.

NATO needs to form coalition and keep pressure on them. America needs to stay out of this except special forces who almost never make it on the news

While I sure as hell don't want to reengage in Iraq - that being said I am also of the mind set that we either fight them there, or wait for them to show up here. Some very poor political decisions (on both sides of the political fence) brought us to this point. My crystal ball says that Obama does nothing but make idle threats, and that Iraq becomes a rogue state (such as North Korea)driven by Islamic ideology/theology that insists that everyone in the world bend knee to Mecca - and that it wont stop with just Iraq.

Ok, so I just read something on a few different sources, and I wanted to see how this may shape political opinion.

Iran is claiming that hey have no choice but to help Iraq reestablish security and to assist them in fighting ISIL. Historically speaking, Iran and Iraq get along worse than Texas and Oklahoma fans during football season. The Iraqi government is also heavily backed by the US, and the US and Iran have a very contentious relationship.

If Iran does help Iraq, how could this affect our relationship with Iraq? What impact may this have across our other Allies? Will they feel as though they may be more likely to get support from their mortal enemy prior to getting support from us?

If Iran and Iraq develop a working partnership which carries over after (if) ISIL is defeated, what impact may that have on the Middle East? After all, Iran is supported by Russia, as is Syria. This may work to stabilize a region of the Middle East, but would it lead to potential further issues? Could Russia exert further influence on the Middle East through a proxy relationship with Iraq? Could this affect the world energy market? Could we see other parts of the Middle East completely destabilize through such influence? Israel's national interests would definitely be impacted by Iran expanding it's influence.

Further, will we lose credibility? Israel would expect us to come to their aid if the PLO or another organization conducted a similar campaign. Given, they have a strong military, but if they were overwhelmed they would need our help. Will they believe that we are there to support them if we will not support another government that we established and "stabilized."

There are so many questions to ask here that carry way beyond the simple concept of the immediate impact of supporting Iraq through military effort. There are second and third order aspects here that can have a tremendous impact across our national interests, both abroad and domestically. To me, it seems as though many are being very short-sighted in addressing the total impact of the decisions being made right now. This includes many whom I have heard speak from our civilian government. I would like to hear them address many of these issues in support of the lobbying and decisions that they make in order to demonstrate that they have reviewed the full impact of their ideas and decisions just so maybe we can get an idea of their assessment.

Let them work it out.